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  • Biratnagar Eye Hospital


    This year, Biratnagar Eye Hospital
    Biratnagar Eye Hospital
    58,429 patients examined
    12,301 surgeries performed
    (BEH) Biratnagar has successfully completed its infancy period. It has progressed rapidly into a widely well recognized eye hospital fulfilling its main objective of delivering affordable high quality comprehensive and tertiary level ophthalmic services to the economically poor and underprevileged people of the community. At present it is providing eye services mainly in Koshi zone; however, patients from neighbouring Indian states (Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya and Uttar Pradesh) are also availing of the services. Right now it is rendering the services in the rented building which will be shifted after the EREC building is completed.

    Outpatients
    • Total patients: 58,429
    • New patients: 49,035
    • Follow-up patients: 9.394
    • Indian patients: 38,687
    • Nepalese patients: 19,742
    Surgeries
    • Cataract surgeries (adult): 9,096 (52% SICS and 44% Phacoemulsification)
    • Paediatric cataract surgeries: 318
    • Vitreoretinal surgeries: 464
    • Trabeculectomy: 79
    • Dacryocystectomy: 70
    • Dacryocystorhinostomy: 18
    • Keratoplasty: 33
    • Laser procedures: 1,020
    • Others: 1,203
    Super- specialty Services
    • Vitreo - Retinal Department
    • Cornea Department
    • Cornea Collection Centre
    • Visual Field Examination
    • Low Vision Department
 

  • December 6 2011
    Two separate Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) were signed on December 5, 2011 by the Embassy of India, Kathmandu with Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh (NNJS) for providing grant assistance of NRs. 4.42 crores to NNJS for eye care programme in various districts of Nepal during the year 2011-2012. The MOU will cover the cost of conducting over 15,000 cataract surgeries and also provide over 9,300 optical devices to vision impaired children through mobile screening camps to be held in various schools of Nepal as a ‘National Eye Sight Programme’. India will provide additional assistance of NRs. 0.18 crores for conducting 1000 Trachoma surgeries to the NNJS during the year 2011-2012.
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